our adventure continues

It has always been important for me to let the children have as much 'free time' out doors as possible, before we moved, we were the...

Half term

It's half term again, another week off school, I love the school holidays, I really do enjoy having the children home, I often here moth...

silent Sunday

True Friends

I grew up around dogs, and when I moved out into my own house with my partner we got a dog from the RSPCA, a little mongrel called Dennis, w...

the ugly truth to being a parent

The thing about being a parent is that there seems to be a new hurdle around every corner, something unseen by you before. some of these thi...

when I say no...

I'm really not good at being a strict parent, I try so hard to make sure that they learn right from wrong, but they seem intent on doing...

reflecting

well yesterday was abit of a mad blur, so nervous all morning anxiously staring at facebook, even tho I knew it wouldn't help, the resul...

yay!!! we made it!

What a roller coaster of a week this has been, and how amazing to have got through it and been selected! I can't thank those at toys R u...

waiting....

Well todays the day, Geoffrey and all those at Toys R us , will put all us on the shortlist to become toyologists out of our misery, its bee...

9 years...

My eldest is 9 now, Nine!! seems such an old age. next year he'll be in double figures, which is a scary thought, then he'll be fast...

Silent Sunday

Lego Ninjago Review

For Mikeys birthday the other day, we brought him a couple of sets of Lego Ninjago , which was the main thing he had asked for (not sure if...

Lets Play...

Over at ' TheboyandMe' they are doing a linky about play.... Play, well its something all children excel at right? well mine do love...

Fingers firmly crossed!

Toys R us, on their facebook page ran a competition to find this years toyologist , to enter you had to review a product to be in with a c...

4 years...

It was my littlest birthday the other day, and he is now 4 years old, seems like the past 4 years have passed so very quickly, but then in ...

Silent Sunday

leaving behind... looking forward..

When I started this blog, I wanted to blog about our 'good life' style life, we seemingly had everything you need, we had a nice hou...

keep smiling

Zhu Zhu Hamster Review

One of the Toys high on my 3 childrens Christmas list was Zhu Zhu Hamsters, and as it was something which all three asked for, I thought ...

Bank holidays!

We've been lucky this month the bank holidays have all been lovely weather wise, and we were given another bank holiday to celebrate the...